Men preyed on elderly Cork woman in act of 'phenomenal criminality'

The 12 chainsaws, 11 generators and seven power washers and assorted tools a woman was pressured into buying. Picture: An Garda Siochána

A 72-year-old woman was followed to her remote home in West Cork by two men who then filled her living room with chainsaws, power-washers, generators and other tools only to demand huge payments.

The sentencing judge said they undermined her totally in an invasion of the privacy of her home in an act of phenomenal criminality. He jailed the duo for two years.